CN109218480B

CN109218480B - Terminal device

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Publication number: CN109218480B
Application number: CN201811313511.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 薛飞
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-11-06
Filing date: 2018-11-06
Publication date: 2021-01-08
Anticipated expiration: 2038-11-06
Also published as: CN109218480A

Abstract

The invention discloses a terminal device, wherein a frame of a shell is provided with a through hole, a camera is movably arranged on the shell and has a retraction stroke and an ejection stroke relative to the shell, a driving mechanism comprises a first elastic part and an elastic hook, the camera is provided with a guide track, the guide track is provided with a hanging part, the first end of the elastic hook is connected with the shell, the second end of the elastic hook is in sliding fit with the guide track, the elastic hook can apply tension to the camera, the first elastic part can apply elasticity to the camera, and the direction of the elasticity is opposite to that of the tension; in the retraction stroke, the pulling force is larger than the elastic force, the second end of the elastic hook slides into the hanging part and is in hanging fit with the hanging part, and the camera moves into the shell; in popping out the stroke, elasticity is greater than the pulling force, and the second end of elastic hook slides out from the hookup portion, and the camera passes through the perforation and removes outside the casing. The scheme can solve the problems of higher cost and more complex structure of the current terminal equipment.

Description

Terminal device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a terminal device.

Background

With the functions of terminal devices (such as mobile phones and tablet computers) increasing, functional devices configured on the terminal devices, such as cameras, face recognition modules, environment photosensitive modules, and the like, increasing, which brings great challenges to the assembly of the terminal devices. Along with the improvement of the user demand for the appearance of the terminal equipment, the user prefers the terminal equipment with a large screen occupation ratio more and more, and on the premise that the size of the whole terminal equipment is determined, the larger and larger screen occupation ratio can cause that functional devices arranged on the board surface of the terminal equipment in the past do not have enough installation space.

In order to increase the screen occupation ratio of the terminal device, the camera of the current terminal device is a telescopic camera, and the telescopic camera is driven by a driving mechanism arranged in a shell of the terminal device, so that the terminal device can enter and exit the shell. When a user needs to shoot, the driving mechanism is controlled to drive the telescopic camera to extend out of the shell, and then shooting is carried out. After the shooting is finished, the driving mechanism is controlled to drive the telescopic camera to retract into the shell, and the purpose of hiding the camera is achieved. The terminal equipment of above-mentioned structure can avoid the camera to its face occupation of space, and then can reduce the frame width of casing, and the frame width reduces then can make the area increase of display screen, and the screen that finally can increase terminal equipment accounts for than.

In present terminal equipment, driving motor adopts motor drive, and the motor can lead to terminal equipment's cost higher, adopts motor drive to need dispose comparatively complicated drive mechanism moreover, just can realize the drive to telescopic camera, and this structure that can lead to terminal equipment undoubtedly is comparatively complicated.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention discloses a terminal device, which aims to solve the problems of high cost and complex structure of the conventional terminal device in which a motor is adopted to drive a camera to stretch.

In order to solve the problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a terminal device comprises a shell, a camera and a driving mechanism arranged in the shell, wherein a through hole is formed in the frame of the shell, the camera is movably arranged on the shell and has a retraction stroke and an ejection stroke relative to the shell, the driving mechanism comprises a first elastic part and an elastic hook, a guide rail is arranged on the camera and is provided with a hanging part, the first end of the elastic hook is connected with the shell, the second end of the elastic hook is in sliding fit with the guide rail, the elastic hook can apply tension to the camera, the first elastic part can apply elastic force to the camera, and the direction of the elastic force is opposite to that of the tension;

in the retraction stroke, the pulling force is greater than the elastic force, the second end of the elastic hook slides into the hanging part and is in hanging fit with the hanging part, and the camera moves into the shell; in the popping stroke, the elastic force is larger than the pulling force, the second end of the elastic hook slides out of the hanging part, and the camera moves out of the shell through the through hole.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention can achieve the following beneficial effects:

in the terminal equipment disclosed by the invention, the driving mechanism can realize the telescopic movement of the camera under the manual control operation of a user, the user only needs to press the camera in the whole operation process, and the first elastic piece can drive the camera to extend out when the elastic hook is separated from the hanging part. The elastic force generated by the hooking and matching between the elastic hook and the hooking part can overcome the elastic force generated by the first elastic part, so that the camera is kept in the shell. Therefore, the terminal equipment disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can solve the problems of higher cost and more complex structure existing in the prior art that the camera is driven to stretch by adopting the motor.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 and fig. 2 are schematic partial structural diagrams of a terminal device in a state and at different viewing angles, respectively, according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic partial structural diagram of a terminal device in another state according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a sectional view showing a partial structure of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a partial structural schematic diagram of the camera.

Description of reference numerals:

100-shell, 110-frame, 111-perforation, 120-inner cavity, 130-first positioning part, 140-second positioning part, 141-second elastic part, 142-positioning block,

200-camera, 210-guiding groove, 211-sliding-in groove section, 212-sliding-out groove section, 213-hanging groove section,

300-driving mechanism, 310-first elastic piece, 320-elastic hook.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the specific embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The technical solutions disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a terminal device, which includes a housing 100, a camera 200, and a driving mechanism 300.

The housing 100 has a bezel 110. The housing 100 of different structures differs in the components forming the bezel 110. For example, the case 100 may include a front case, a battery cover, and a middle frame disposed therebetween. The bezel 110 may be formed on the middle frame. In this case, the frame 110 serves as a part of the middle frame. For another example, the housing 100 includes a front cover and a battery cover, and the frame 110 may be formed on the front cover or the battery cover. In this embodiment, the housing 100 has an inner cavity 120, thereby providing an installation space for the constituent members of the terminal device. The frame 110 has a through hole 111, the through hole 111 is communicated with the inner cavity 120, and the through hole 111 is used for the camera 200 to pass through.

The drive mechanism 300 is disposed in the interior cavity 120 of the housing 100. The camera 200 is movably disposed on the housing 100, and the driving mechanism 300 is connected to the camera 200 and can drive the camera 200 to move. Under the control of the driving mechanism 300, the camera 200 can move and enter and exit the through hole 111, that is, the camera 200 can extend out of the casing 100 through the through hole 111 and can retract into the casing 100 through the through hole 111. In this embodiment, the camera 200 is provided with a guide rail, and the guide rail has a hanging part for hanging and matching with a second end of the elastic hook 320 described later.

As described above, the driving mechanism 300 can control the movement of the camera 200, and thus the movement of the camera 200 into and out of the through hole 111. In this embodiment, the driving mechanism 300 may include a first elastic member 310 and an elastic hook 320. The first end of the elastic hook 320 is connected with the housing 100, the second end of the elastic hook 320 is in sliding fit with the guide rail, and in the moving process of the camera 200, the second end of the elastic hook 320 can slide along the direction of the guide rail and finally can slide to the position of the hanging part. The second end of the elastic hook 320 can be matched with the hanging part in a hanging way, and the elastic hook 320 can apply pulling force to the camera 200.

The first elastic member 310 is disposed on the housing 100, and the first elastic member 310 can apply an elastic force to the camera head 200, the elastic force being opposite to the pulling force.

In this embodiment, the camera 200 is movably disposed on the housing 100 and has a retracting stroke and an ejecting stroke with respect to the housing 100. In the retraction stroke, the pulling force is greater than the elastic force, the second end of the elastic hook 320 slides into the hanging part and is in hanging fit with the hanging part, and the camera 200 moves into the shell 100 through the through hole 111; in the ejection stroke, the elastic force is greater than the pulling force, the second end of the elastic hook 320 slides out of the hooking part, and the camera 200 moves out of the housing 100 through the through hole 111.

In a specific using process, a user can press the camera 200 to enable the camera 200 to retract, in the retracting process of the camera 200, the camera 200 can move relative to the elastic hook 320, the second end of the elastic hook 320 can slide along the trend of the guide track, and finally the second end of the elastic hook 320 can move to the hanging part, in the process, the camera 200 is pressed, and the elastic force of the first elastic piece 310 can be overcome. After the camera 200 is loosened, the camera 200 moves back under the action of elastic force, under the condition, the hanging part can be hung and matched with the second end of the elastic hook 320, and the elastic force (the tensile force is greater than the elastic force) can be overcome by the tensile force applied by the elastic hook 320, so that the camera 200 is kept in the inner cavity 120 of the shell 100, and the camera 200 is finally hidden.

When the user need shoot, the user presses camera 200 again, and then make camera 200 remove relative elastic hook 320, finally make elastic hook 320's second end drop from articulating portion and enter into other positions of guide rail, under this condition, elastic hook 320 and the cooperation of articulating portion became invalid, then disappearance or diminish to the pulling force that camera 200 applyed, the elasticity that final camera 200 received is greater than the pulling force, pass perforation 111 under the effect of elastic force and pushed outside casing 100, and then accomplish and shoot and prepare.

As can be seen from the above working process, in the terminal device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention, the driving mechanism 300 can implement the telescopic movement of the camera 200 under the manual operation of the user, the user only needs to press the camera 200 during the whole operation process, and the first elastic member 310 can drive the camera 200 to extend when the elastic hook 320 is separated from the hanging part. The pulling force generated by the hooking engagement between the elastic hook 320 and the hooking portion can overcome the elastic force generated by the first elastic member 310, so that the camera 200 is maintained in the housing 100. Therefore, the terminal device disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can solve the problems of higher cost and more complex structure existing in the prior art that the camera is driven to stretch by adopting a motor.

In this embodiment, the first positioning portion 130 may be disposed in the housing 100, the first elastic member 310 may be disposed between the camera 200 and the first positioning portion 130, and the first elastic member 310 may have a certain amount of preload. In the embodiment of the present invention, the first elastic member 310 may be a flexible spring, a rubber elastic block, a metal elastic sheet, and the like, and the embodiment of the present invention does not limit the specific type of the first elastic member 310.

In order to make the expansion and contraction of the first elastic member 310 more stable, in a preferred embodiment, the terminal device disclosed in this embodiment may further include a guide pillar, and the guide pillar is fixedly connected to the first positioning portion 130. The first elastic member 310 may be fitted over the guide post. During operation, the first elastic member 310 can be extended and retracted along the guide post.

As described above, the first end of the elastic hook 320 is connected to the casing 100, and specifically, the second positioning portion 140 may be disposed in the casing 100, and the first end of the elastic hook 320 is connected to the second positioning portion 140. In this embodiment, the first end of the elastic hook 320 may be fixedly connected to the second positioning portion 140, or movably connected to the second positioning portion 140. The elastic hook 320 has good deformability, so that the second end of the elastic hook 320 can adapt to the trend of the guide rail through deformation when acting relative to the camera 200.

In order to facilitate the sliding of the second end of the elastic hook 320 along the guide track, in a preferred embodiment, the first end of the elastic hook 320 may be rotatably engaged with the second positioning portion 140, so that the elastic hook 320 may swing around the first end of the elastic hook 320, thereby being capable of better adapting to the trend of the guide track.

In this embodiment, the second positioning portion 140 is a mounting base disposed on the inner wall of the housing 100, and the structure of the second positioning portion 140 may be various. In a specific embodiment, the second positioning part 140 may include a second elastic member 141, and the first end of the elastic hook 320 is connected to the second elastic member 141. The second elastic member 141 can apply an elastic force to the elastic hook 320 in the same direction as the pulling force, thereby ensuring that the elastic hook 320 has a better tension property.

In a preferred embodiment, the second positioning portion 140 may further include a positioning block 142, the positioning block 142 may be fixed in the housing 100, and the second elastic member 141 may be fixed on the positioning block 142.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the camera 200 and the second end of the elastic hook 320 move relatively, the second end of the elastic hook 320 can slide along the guide of the guide rail. The guide rail plays a guiding role. The guide rail may be a protrusion protruding from the surface of the camera head 200 or may be a guide groove 210. In order to improve the stability of the sliding, the guide rail is preferably a guide groove 210.

The structure of the guide groove 210 may be various as long as the above-described function is satisfied. In a specific embodiment, the guide groove 210 may include a slide-in groove section 211, a slide-out groove section 212, and a catching groove section 213, wherein: one end of the sliding-in groove section 211 is connected with one end of the sliding-out groove section 212, the other end of the sliding-in groove section 211 and the other end of the sliding-out groove section 212 are respectively connected with two ends of the hanging groove section 213, the hanging groove section 213 bends towards the extending direction deviating from the camera 200, and the bending part of the hanging groove section 213 is a hanging part. The guide groove with the above structure can enable the elastic hook 320 to slide towards one direction in the process of extending and retracting of the camera 200, and further complete switching among various positions. Of course, one end of the slide-in channel section 211 may not engage with one end of the slide-out channel section 212.

For better guiding, the sliding-in groove section 211 and the sliding-out groove section 212 may be arc-shaped grooves in a preferred embodiment, and it should be noted that the arc-shaped grooves refer to grooves with arc-shaped axes along the penetrating direction.

The terminal device disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can be an electronic device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, an electronic book reader, a wearable device and the like, and the specific type of the terminal device is not limited by the embodiment of the invention.

In the above embodiments of the present invention, the difference between the embodiments is mainly described, and different optimization features between the embodiments can be combined to form a better embodiment as long as they are not contradictory, and further description is omitted here in view of brevity of the text.

The above description is only an example of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Various modifications and alterations to this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. The terminal equipment is characterized by comprising a shell (100), a camera (200) and a driving mechanism (300) arranged in the shell (100), wherein a through hole (111) is formed in a frame (110) of the shell (100), the camera (200) is movably arranged on the shell (100) and has a retraction stroke and an ejection stroke relative to the shell (100), a second positioning part (140) is arranged in the shell (100), the second positioning part (140) comprises a second elastic part (141), the driving mechanism (300) comprises a first elastic part (310) and an elastic hook (320), a guide track is arranged on the camera (200) and is provided with a hanging part, a first end of the elastic hook (320) is connected with the second elastic part (141), and a second end of the elastic hook is in sliding fit with the guide track, the elastic hook (320) can apply tension to the camera (200), and the first elastic piece (310) can apply elastic force to the camera (200), wherein the elastic force is opposite to the tension direction;

in the retraction stroke, the pulling force is larger than the elastic force, the second end of the elastic hook (320) slides into the hanging part and is in hanging fit with the hanging part, and the camera (200) moves into the shell (100); in the ejection stroke, the elastic force is larger than the pulling force, the second end of the elastic hook (320) slides out of the hanging part, and the camera (200) moves out of the shell through the through hole (111).

2. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein a first positioning portion (130) is provided in the housing (100), and the first elastic member (310) is provided between the camera (200) and the first positioning portion (130).

3. The terminal device of claim 2, further comprising a guiding post, wherein the guiding post is fixedly connected to the first positioning portion (130), and the first elastic member (310) is sleeved on the guiding post.

4. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein a first end of the elastic hook (320) is rotatably engaged with the second positioning portion (140) so that the elastic hook (320) can swing around the first end of the elastic hook (320).

5. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the second positioning portion (140) further comprises a positioning block (142), the positioning block (142) is fixed in the housing (100), and the second elastic member (141) is fixed on the positioning block (142).

6. A terminal device according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide track is a guide groove (210).

7. Terminal device according to claim 6, characterized in that the guide groove (210) comprises a slide-in groove section (211), a slide-out groove section (212) and a hitch groove section (213), wherein:

one end of the sliding-in groove section (211) is connected with one end of the sliding-out groove section (212), the other end of the sliding-in groove section (211) is connected with the other end of the sliding-out groove section (212) respectively, the two ends of the hanging-in groove section (213) are connected with each other, the hanging-in groove section (213) deviates from the extending direction of the camera (200) and bends, and the bending part of the hanging-in groove section (213) is the hanging part.

8. The terminal device according to claim 7, characterized in that the slide-in slot section (211) and the slide-out slot section (212) are both arc-shaped slots.

9. The terminal device according to any one of claims 1-8, wherein the terminal device is a smartphone, a tablet, an e-book reader, or a wearable device.